Etelvino Vega

Etelvino Vega (1906-November 1939) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
Etelvino Vega was born in 1906, and he became a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Spain. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he served with the elite Fifth Regiment at Somosierra and in the Battle of Teruel, Battle of Guadalajara, and the Battle of the Ebro. In March 1939, he was given command of the military units in Alicante, but Segismundo Casado led a coup in 1939 and had Vega arrested. He was captured by Nationalist Spain at the end of the war, and Vega was executed in November.